VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday warned MDC
Alliance president Nelson Chamisa against inciting violence by claiming that he
had the capacity to disrupt next week’s watershed polls.
Chiwenga was addressing a rally at Kingsdale, Norton to
drum up support for Zanu PF parliamentary candidate Christopher Mutsvangwa, who
is also the special advisor to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
“Some people are in a rush and panicking, they are saying I
can stop the elections, if I tell people in Bulawayo and Harare they will not
vote, in which capacity are you saying this things?” Chiwenga said.
“The issue of Zec does not involve the government; the
executive has nothing to do with this. No one in this country in their right
sense can incite violence; we said we don’t want violence.”
The MDC Alliance has threatened to picket at the Zec
offices countrywide this Wednesday if the commission fails to accede to its
demands to check the security of the ballot paper and monitor its security and
movement during the election period.
Chamisa has accused Zec and Zanu PF of colluding to rig the
elections on behalf of Mnangagwa.
Chiwenga said Norton would soon be given municipal status and
its hospital would be upgraded by the Zanu PF government.
Speaking at the same rally, Mutsvangwa said the people of
Norton voted for independent candidate Temba Mliswa in the previous by-election
just to spite former President Robert Mugabe’s administration and should now
rally behind the current administration led by Mnangagwa. Newsday
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